The use of renewable energy sources, namely the energy content of biomass, can be an alternative to achieve the SDGs of 2030 Agenda. Not involving agricultural soils for such energy crop cultivation increases the sustainability of soil use in biomass production for energy generation, and cropping biomass for energy in contaminated soils will additionally allow the increase of the available agricultural soil through its consequent gradual decontamination.

This webinar aims at presenting the potential of biomass resulting from phytoremediation of metal contaminated soils for energy generation, by means of a novel integrated strategy comprising the integrated utilization of all the plant parts for the generation of several energy products. The proposed strategy showed that it seems possible to obtain good quality energy products from energetic crops grown in metal contaminated soils vs. agricultural soils (otherwise prone for food production) while delivering other intangible economic benefits such as soil erosion control, providing carbon dioxide sequestration or environmental justice.

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